Ms. Carusone's and Ms. Elder's ESOL Stars

We all smile in the same language!!!

Welcome Back!

We hope that everyone had a restful Winter break!  We can't wait to see all of your kids happy faces and get everyone prepared for the ACCESS test that will begin at the end of January.  More information will be sent home about this soon.

We are excited and looking forward to all the new things we will learn this 9 weeks.  :)

Target Open House Date Change

Calendar Change!

Due to a county wide modification in the testing schedule for Gifted Services, the TARGET ‘Open House’ scheduled for Thursday January 19^th has been cancelled.  This meeting for parents of newly identified TARGET students will be reschedule for early February.  Thank you for your patience as begin the testing process of students in first, third and fifth grade.

Michele Myers and Cheryl Ashley-Serafine

Candy Cane Grams on sale Dec. 19 - 21!

Candy Cane grams will be sold in the front of the school near the media center on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week (December 19, 20, & 21). The sweet holiday messages will be delivered on Thursday, December 22, so get your orders in to make sure you don’t miss out on taking part!  Look for pre-order forms coming home this week.

International Night & Volunteering

Thank you to everyone who came out to support our 1st International Night and a special thanks to everyone who volunteered to share their country and culture with us.  We had a wonderful time walking around and visiting all of the countries and eating all of the delicious food!  We cannot wait to start planning for next year. :)

Please don't forget that we are collecting volunteer hours at Nicholson.  We have a school goal of having 2,500 volunteer hours this year!  We know we can make our goal, but we need your help. Please come participate in your child's classroom, make copies for your children's teacher, read with small groups or help reshelve books in the media center.  This is just a small list of all the volunteer opportunities we have at Nicholson.  We would love to see your friendly faces here soon! :)

Cobb County's Center for Family Resources

The Thanksgiving and Cobb Christmas programs sponsored by the Center for Family Resources will host their annual registration on Tuesday, October 4^th and Wednesday, October 5^th from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. The registration will be held at the Cobb Civic Center located at 548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060. For more information about the program, please call the Center for Family Resources at 770 428-2601 ext. 414 or contact our Professional School Counselor, Ms. Fields at adia.fields@cobbk12.org.

 

PROGRAMAS DE ACCION DE GRACIAS Y NAVIDAD

 

EVENTO:

Registración de los Programas de Acción de Gracias y Navidad

770.428.2601, extensión 414

 

CUANDO

Martes, el 4 de octubre y miércoles, el 5 de octubre, 2011

9a.m. – 4p.m.

El número de aplicaciones que serán aceptados diariamente será limitado.  La registración puede terminar más temprano de las 4p.m., dependiendo el número de personas esperando ser verificadas. 

 

DONDE

Cobb Civic Center

548 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060

 

 

Los que apliquen deben ser de ingresos bajos y vivir en el Condado de Cobb.  Los que apliquen para el programa de Navidad de Cobb deben tener niños dependientes que viven en casa con ellos.  No vamos a poder verificar beneficios con DFCS.  Todos los que apliquen deben traer los siguientes documentos:

·         Identificación con su retrato como una licencia de conducir;

·         Tarjetas del Seguro Social o tarjetas de nacimiento para todos que viven en casa;

·         Verificación por escrito de ingresos del hogar de las 4 cuatro semanas anterior, como los talonarios de cheques o una nota del empleador con membrete;

·         Verificación escrita de todo ingresos ganado como TANF, desempleo, compensación de trabajador, Seguro Social, SSI, o manutención del menor, etc.; y

·         Verificación de residencia como un contrato de residencia o un recibo de utilidad en su nombre, etc.

Subscribe to our Blog

A new feature has been added to our blog that allows parents to sign up to be notified by e-mail when we update our blog.  The link for parents to sign up is on the left side of our blog under 'Pages'.  It reads 'Subscribe here for e-mail notification of blog updates'.  You just click, enter your e-mail address, and every time we update our blog, you will get an e-mail!  You also can unsubscribe at any time.  Currently we only have about 20 parents at Nicholson subscribed, so sign up now so you can know everything that is going on in the world of ESOL! J

Skate Night

Our 1st ESOL Skate Night will be next Wednesday, September 28th at Hot Wheels in Woodstock, Georgia.  We look forward to seeing all of you there and sharing some Nicholson information with you and doing advance sign ups for conference week.  We will also be talking about the ways you can volunteer at our school and how to join PTA.  PTA is a great organization that really helps our schools meet the needs of our students by raising money to provide technology and other resources to our school.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday!

Common Core Standards

Here is a letter from the principal about a video to preview the Common Core standards.  The broadcast will air next Wednesday. 

 

Dear Parent(s)/Guardians:

 

On September 21, 2011 from 3:00PM-4:00PM, State Superintendent of Education, John D. Barge, along with staff in the GA Department of Education Curriculum and Instruction division, will host a web-delivered broadcast through Georgia Public Broadcasting to introduce to all stakeholders the upcoming Common Core Georgia Performance Standards (CCGPS).

 

To provide you with a brief history, the state of Georgia, along with 47 other states, has adopted a new set of standards that are geared towards unifying the standards that are used from state to state and enabling students to be college & 21^st century workplace and career ready upon graduating from high school. 

 

If you are unable to view the initial broadcast, it will air again from 4:00PM-5:00PM, and then an archived version will appear the following day.  Three days later, a closed-caption version of the broadcast will air through the same site.  The Web link for the initial broadcast and the archived sessions will be:

 

http://www.gpb.org/education/common-core

 

We hope that all stakeholders will find an opportunity to view this broadcast and learn about the future of education, not only in Georgia, but across the United States.  Your participation in viewing this broadcast will provide your student with the greatest level of support.

Wanda A. Shue

Nicholson Elementary

Welcome Back!

We are so excited to see all of our students back this year and can't wait to begin working with them and see all the amazing things they have learned and done over the summer.  We have also noticed that we may have many new faces joining us this year in Kindergarten and a few other new students in grades 1-5.  This week we will be administering the W-APT assessment for any new students in Kindergarten and figuring out who our new students are and how to best serve all of our students.  We look forward to working with your children soon and having a great time working on our language abilities. 

Please email or call us if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Jennifer.Carusone@cobbk12.org

Kasi.Elder@cobbk12.org

770-928-5573

Summer Vacation

We cannot believe that the school year is over.  We have had so much fun learning from your students this year and seeing all of the wonderful progress that was made in ESOL this year.  Great things are already being planned for next year and we can't wait to work with your students again next year!

ACCESS letters are being mailed home with your child's report card on June 3rd, so please look out for this information.  It will tell you how your child's English language abilities have improved this past year and whether or not they will be receiving ESOL services in the 2011-2012 school year.

Your child has worked so incredibly hard to make the progress he/she has made.  Please continue working at home.  We know that it is summer time and it is a great time to relax, but please continue to read and do math facts each night.  Every year we see our students leaving after a great year of school and showing a lot of growth, but when they return in August, they have lots some of the abilities they gained the previous year and have to spend more time trying to catch up with their peers.  Please don't let this happen at home.  Take the challenge of having your student read for 30 minutes each night and do math facts, using addition, subtraction, multiplication and/or division flash cards or any other ideas you received from classroom teachers this year.  You will see your child have an easier transition into the next grade level and it will be because of YOU and the hardwork you both put in over summer.

We hope that you have a wonderful, safe, relaxing summer and cannot wait to see you all next August!